Sai Gon Hotel Nha Trang

... br>I have now been teaching for nearly two weeks. A morning class and an early evening. An hour and a half each. I love it, I love the kids, and I love being useful. This is the first time in my life I'm working at something that I chose to do. Like maybe I can say I'm a teacher now, instead of like, I own a business. A teacher is what I always wanted to be. Now I know why. Anyway, teaching English here is satisfying and I'm doing something meaningful for a bunch of kids. The neat thing is ...

... radiobilar. Bast.

Nu vantade tivolit. Slanggungan forst ut, pa gransen till livradd, eftersom jag vet hur slanggungorna hemma i svedala ar. Detta var dock ingen fara alls, smagungade lite men fick ingen hojd, lojligt!
Kvallens monster, en stor arm som i andan har sittplatser som snurrar uppochner. Detta var jag an mer skrackslagen for, men precis som for gungan blev det ingen ...

... email from an old friend. My very first traveling adventure was for three weeks in Mexico at a Spanish language school. While there I met Renata from Germany. She was traveling Mexico and the States for a year. She invited me on the weekends to venture out into the real Mexico and stay in hostels. I'd never done that before. We became good friends and later we met up in Louisiana and Rhode Island. She is probably responsible ...

... shine. Big beach, nice water and not many bars or restaurants on it. So yes with a bit of sun it could be true. We opted for a road behind Nha Trang. Busy as hell of course and we looked a bit out of the blue as we were the only foreigners on a scooter. But we did alright,....as did the rain! Blondy stayed pretty dry as I got soaked like the Tuk-Tuk man from Ankor Wat. Stopped along the road for a coffee and sort of looked "Lost in Vietnam". But as always if you ...

In true Vietnamese style we had a beach party and this started in the morning.
The beach here was good - only locals and no sellers (so unlike Cambodia, there was no hustle on the beach)
Played football with the locals, swam in the sea and then good bbq.
The afternoon ............was party time ...

Our bus pulled into Nha Trang just as the sun was setting and dropped us off at a hotel a few blocks off the water. We had found an excellent deal at the Novotel ($45 a night -- a MASSIVE discount), so were looking forward to living a life of luxury for a few days. We got to the hotel just as Ma and Pa were returning from the beach -- perfect timing. We headed up to our rooms on the 10th floor and... WOW. Never before ...

... competition, and doing better. Merchants constantly haggle with you trying to sell ****. Motor-bike operators are always pestering you. Hotels and restaurants fight over your business. And the result is that people are sending their kids to school with their earnings to learn about information technology. And if that is evil, then well, we better start looking at the results of our own policies ...

... from head to toe on a 37 degree day is so they don't go brown. They also wear high heels on the beach cause they would like to be taller. Not sure if she's right, but I will believe it.

In the words of our cross-dressing, singing, dancing, joking tour guide Chot everything free - swimming free, sunbathing free, snorkelling free, I am free - free for ladies, not for boys. I like the way you move, love you long time. Goodbye.

... evening. A favourite haunt of Aussie Dave. Ate burgers and drank beer! Amber bailed by ten. Alice stayed out and co-created better rules for rugby. far more interesting! a little too much to explain here!

Day 2 in Nha Trang...
Amber up early for diving. Alice gets a lie in!!!
Amber picked up by minibus and taken to the heaving docks. absolute madness! just the four of us plus two autrian snorklers ...

This morning was an absolute shocker, up at 4:30am for the alleged "5am" bus to the Cham ruins at My Son, as in "go on my son!"

CLEARLY that must be earlier than most of you slackers got up today?! ;)

As was horribly predictable, we sat and waited for the bus for ages. In fact technically it didn't make it.

A rather sheepish guide ...